Sherry Marts is an American consultant on

sexual harassment Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. Sexual harassment includes a range of actions fro ...

and academic who advises scientific associations on how to address and ameliorate institutionalized sexual harassment. While Marts was a PhD student at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

, working in

cell biology Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living and ...

, she experienced serious sexual harassment. At Duke University, she was the co-chairperson of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC), an organization that she helped to found. She spent 10 years in

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, at the Society for Women’s Health Research, where she was the vice president for scientific affairs. In 2018 Marts shared an

MIT Disobedience Award The MIT Disobedience Award, given by the MIT Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a $250,000 cash-prize award that recognized and honored the efforts of an individual or an organization whose ethical disobedience of authority re ...

, given to individuals who fight sexual harassment, with

BethAnn McLaughlin BethAnn McLaughlin is an American neuroscientist, activist, and hoaxer. She is a former assistant professor of neurology at Vanderbilt University. Her research at Vanderbilt focused on neural stress responses and brain injury. After being denied ...

and

Tarana Burke Tarana Burke (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from The Bronx, New York, who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began using MeToo to help other women with similar experiences to stand up for themselves. Over a decade late ...

. In 2020 Marts stopped associating with McLaughlin and stopped using the #MeTooSTEM hashtag. In September 2019 she was appointed executive director of the

Genetics Society of America The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is a scholarly membership society of more than 5,500 genetics researchers and educators, established in 1931. The Society was formed from the reorganization of the Joint Genetics Sections of the American Soc ...

Selected publications

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References

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, archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200811040036/https://genetics-gsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/marts_pr.pdf , archive-date = 2020-08-11 , access-date = 2020-08-07 , url-status = live , quote = Prior to her work at SWHR, she worked in research administration and advocacy in biomedical services at the American Red Cross, and directed biomedical research grant programs in Alzheimer’s disease, glaucoma, and cardiovascular disease at the American Health Assistance Foundation. She received her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Applied Biology from the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and her Ph.D. in Physiology from Duke University, Durham, NC. {{cite news , url = https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/scientific-societies-update-policies-to-address--metoo--66492 , title = Scientific Societies Update Policies to Address #MeToo , work = The Scientist , first = Diane , last = Kwon , date = September 25, 2019 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200727134638/https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/scientific-societies-update-policies-to-address--metoo--66492 , archive-date = July 27, 2020 , access-date = August 7, 2020 , url-status = live , quote = Conferences, in particular, are common sites of sexual harassment. “I think it’s a combination of the old—and hopefully passing away—attitude of, ‘what happens at the meeting stays at the meeting,’ and, ‘this isn’t a work place, so I don’t have to obey the rules here,’” says Sherry Marts, a consultant who advises scientific societies on how to address harassment. {{cite news , url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html , title = The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn't , work =

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, author1 = Jonah Engel Bromwich , author2 = Ezra Marcus , date = 2020-08-04 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200810104330/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html , archive-date = 2020-08-10 , access-date = 2020-08-07 , url-status = live , quote = Activists including Ms. Marts publicly distanced themselves from the embattled MeTooSTEM leader; they even officially resigned from the hashtag. {{cite news , url = https://www.science.org/content/article/metoo-advocates-share-mit-disobedience-award , title = Scientists share MIT 'disobedience' award for #MeToo advocacy , work =

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, author = Meredith Wadman , date = 2018-11-27 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191013124017/https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/metoo-advocates-share-mit-disobedience-award , archive-date = 2019-10-13 , access-date = 2020-08-07 , url-status = live , quote = Marts, the other scientist honored, left science after enduring sexual harassment while completing a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Marts, Sherry Sexual harassment in the United States